Edward Steichen Quotes About Photography

• When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

  Edward Steichen

  Fotografía, Arte, Hombres

• Un retrato no se hace en la cámara, sino a ambos lados de ella.

  Edward Steichen

  Inspiración, Fotografía, Cámaras

• La fotografía registra la gama de sentimientos escritos en el rostro humano, la belleza de la tierra y los cielos que el hombre ha heredado, y la riqueza y la confusión que el hombre ha creado. Es una fuerza fundamental para explicar el hombre al hombre.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

• Cualquier otro artista comienza con un lienzo en blanco, un trozo de papel, el fotógrafo comienza con el producto terminado.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Pieces

• La fotografía es una fuerza importante para explicar el hombre al hombre.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Records

• Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Artist, Simple

• A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Photographer, Thousand

• Ningún fotógrafo es tan bueno como la cámara más sencilla.

  Edward Steichen

  Fotografía, Cámaras, Fotógrafo

• La misión de la fotografía es explicar el hombre al hombre y cada uno a sí mismo. Y eso es lo más complicado del mundo.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Earth

• Cuando ese obturador hace clic, cualquier otra cosa que se pueda hacer después no merece la pena.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Done

• La fotografía registra la gama de sentimientos escritos en el rostro humano.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Feelings, Faces

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

• El uso del término medio artístico es, como mínimo, engañoso, ya que es el artista el que crea una obra de arte y no el medio. En la fotografía, es el artista el que da forma al contenido mediante la destilación de ideas, pensamiento, experiencia, perspicacia y comprensión.

  Edward Steichen

  Fotografía, Arte, Ideas

• Algún día puede haber... una máquina a la que sólo haya que darle cuerda y enviarla a recorrer colinas y valles, campos y praderas, arroyos murmurantes y bosques sombríos; en resumen, una máquina que seleccione su tema con delicadeza y, mediante una hábil disposición de muelles y tornillos, componga su motivo, exponga la placa, revele, imprima e incluso monte y enmarque el resultado de su excursión, de modo que no nos quede más remedio que enviarla a la exposición de la Royal Photographic Society y recibir agradecidos la "Medalla Real".

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Spring, Mean

• I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Real, Light

  Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

• Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Sake

• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Mistake, Artist

• The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, People, Patterns

• To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.

  Edward Steichen

  Fotografía, Arte, Ser

• A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Perfect, Daguerreotypes

• There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Optimism

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